Word: clyde
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Bonnie and Clyde directed by Arthur Penn at the Brattle Theatre February...
...current college-age generation, watching "Bonnie and Clyde" is a little bit like traveling back in time. It features Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, Gene Hackman and Gene Wilder, long members of the Hollywood annals of stardom, in one of their debut performances. It also provides the escapistoutlaw inspiration for some contemporary faves like "Thelma and Louise" and "A Perfect World." But the outlaw-chase film is at its very best with "Bonnie and Clyde...
...tactics: use of theme, imagery, camera angle and metaphor. What better way to situate the story of romantic outlaws than to contrast their vivacity with the stark barrenness of the Depression and Dust Bowl 1930's. The initial fire that sweeps up Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) is cooled when they run into early troubles at the start of their escapades. The first bank they try to rob together has gone bankrupt. They stop at a local person's farmstead and finding that the bank has foreclosed upon it, they use the sign for target practice...
Their zig-zag escapades from the Midwest to the Southwest make "Bonnie and Clyde" an adventure flick in the style of a pioneer Western. As Clyde and Bonnie travel, they move farther and farther from civilization and its attendant rules. In their travels they pick up C.W. Post (Michael J. Pollard), a gas station attendant, Clyde's brother-in-law, Buck (Gene Hackman), and his wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), a nag and complainer who puts a damper on the group's free-wheeling fun. She is a constant reminder of the boredom and drudgery of the world that Bonnie...
...BOTTOM LINE: And Bonnie and Clyde go to L.A.: this corpse opera takes the low road, but with high craft...